World Englishes and culture wars
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World Englishes and culture wars
(Cambridge approaches to language contact)
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 269-297
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written from a non-Western perspective, this book exposes the inadequacy of oppositions such as native versus non-native Englishes and English versus New Englishes. It explains why the label 'World Englishes' captures both what the different Englishes share and how they differ from each other. It also criticizes the kinds of power asymmetries that have evolved between the Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circles of English, while showing the extent to which the Outer Circle has enriched their common language and made it suitable for both its heritage and non-heritage users. The narrative is grounded in a wealth of historical knowledge, especially that of the colonization of the Outer Circle. Readers are invited to compare the spread and differentiation of English with those of Latin, which evolved into the Romance languages. This comparison may leave the reader asking: could English break up into Anglian languages?
Table of Contents
- Part I. World Englishes Today: 1. The agony and ecstasy
- 2. The second diaspora
- 3. Culture wars
- 4. Standards and codification
- 5. The power and politics
- Part II. Context and Creativity: 6. The speaking tree
- 7. Creativity and literary canons
- Part III. Past and Prejudice: 8. Liberation linguistics
- 9. Sacred linguistic cows
- 10. The paradigms of marginalization
- Part IV. Ethical Issues and the ELT Empire: 11. Applying linguistics
- 12. Leaking paradigms
- Part V. World Englishes and the Classroom: 13. Mythology in teaching
- Part VI. Research Areas and Resources: 14. Research resources.
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